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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lean left on a lot of issues, but have voted for republicans before (locally and at the state and congressional level). I've heard about some of his proposals and really don't under HOW he can do any of this considering how right wing the House is at the moment. I also know nothing about what he has accomplished. That said, I agree with a lot of the points he is making but have no clue how any of them would ever be realized (single payer -- means taking down the insurance industry which just seem impossible based on lobbying dollars spent in Congress). Also: the president doesn't pass laws.

For everything I've read about Sanders, I don't think he has any more substance than Clinton. His ideas sound great. But execution?

That said, I don't see myself voting for a republican. Kaisch is the closest to getting my vote and I don't like his stance on abortion. [/quote]

I agree with most of what you say. In a way, Sanders is like Rubio: beautiful words, amazing rhetoric, and never accomplished anything of substance.

Rubio at least has potential, being just in his 40s.[/quote]

So I'm not crazy. My facebook went sideways with people extolling his ideas and I spent some of lunch googling him and couldn't really find anything of substance the man accomplished. And his ideas are lovely. But I don't see anything that explains how he plans to accomplish them in this country's political environment. It's crazy to me.[/quote]

AGREE. From an interview today with Kasie Hunt of MSNBC:

Hunt: You say that you want to create a political revolution, that you will be able to get things done as president of the United States. As somebody who has covered Congress for a long time, you've been in Congress for a long time. Do you expect that you could walk into that office and have Congress change overnight? A lot of these proposals you are pushing forward would never pass the Congress.

Sanders: No, that's never what I said. It's not that my personality is better than Barack Obama's. Or that Mitch McConnell would work more easily with me than with Obama. What I have said is if we rally the American people to demand that Congress do what the American people want them to do.... Overwhelmingly the American people want to raise the minimum wage, Congress does not. Then the job is to rally the American people to tell Congress to do what the American people want. Pay equity for women - overwhelmingly. The question is there is a huge gap right now between Congress and the American people. What presidential leadership is about is closing that gap.

Hunt: And you don't think that President Obama has successfully closed that gap.

Sanders: No, I don't. I mean I think he has made the effort, but I think what we need, when I talk about a political revolution, is bringing millions and millions of people into the political process in a way that does not exist right now.

HOPE IS NOT A PLAN.[/quote]

Yeah. This doesn't make me want to vote for him for president. Because he seems to have no understanding that the president doesn't pass laws and I think the bulk of people would look at this rhetoric and back away slowly. Americans like change. Slowly.[/quote]

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